Flint Farmers’ Market celebrates 10 years downtown
Aug10

Flint Farmers’ Market celebrates 10 years downtown

by Christopher Reynolds The Flint Farmers Market is celebrating a decade at its downtown facility this summer. The market moved to 300 E. First St. from its former space along the riverfront at 420 E. Boulevard Drive a little over 10 years ago. Since then, it has become a central place of commerce and gathering in downtown Flint’s skyline. The market moved to its current location, the former Flint Journal building, in 2014,...

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Here’s where you can celebrate Juneteenth 2024 in Flint
May29

Here’s where you can celebrate Juneteenth 2024 in Flint

By Canisha Bell The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on January 1, 1863 with the intent to free enslaved African Americans. However, not all enslaved African Americans were freed, nor even informed of their freedom, that day.  In fact, over two years later on June 19, 1865 — when 2,000 Union troops arrived announcing the end of slavery in Galveston, Texas — there were still over 250,000 enslaved African Americans in the...

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FIM Flint Repertory Theatre to host free New Works Festival
Apr22

FIM Flint Repertory Theatre to host free New Works Festival

By EVM Staff The FIM Flint Repertory Theatre will put on its 2024 New Works Festival from April 26-28, 2024. The Rep’s annual New Works Festival is a three-day event presenting staged readings of new plays, during which audience members get a chance to experience new work before anyone else and “meet the artists working to bring the future of American theatre to life,” according to an April 18 press release. This year’s...

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Nancy Dash presents ‘The Centennial Prints’ show at Mott Community College
Feb17

Nancy Dash presents ‘The Centennial Prints’ show at Mott Community College

By Paul Rozycki Nancy Dash has worked at Mott Community College (MCC) for over half of its 100-year history. During that time she has been a coach for men’s tennis and women’s basketball and volleyball, as well as a professor of psychology since the early 1970s. But before she did any of those things she was an artist. So, on Thursday Feb. 15, 2024, as part of its regular Art Talk series, Dash explained her process of creating...

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Totem Books offers Flint-area writers a Leap Day plan
Feb15

Totem Books offers Flint-area writers a Leap Day plan

By EVM Staff Totem Books will host its “second quadrennial” Leap into Writing event on Leap Day, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. According to a Feb. 15 press release, Totem Books’ first Leap into Writing event was held in 2020, when it “brought together writers of all genres and styles from across the Greater Flint area to write together and get to know one another’s work.” This year,...

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Testing the bonds of brotherhood: ‘Into the Side of a Hill’ premieres at Flint Rep this weekend
Feb01

Testing the bonds of brotherhood: ‘Into the Side of a Hill’ premieres at Flint Rep this weekend

By Canisha Bell “Into the Side of a Hill,” a play about the bonds and bounds of fraternity brotherhood by nationally-acclaimed playwright James Anthony Tyler, will make its world premiere at the FIM Flint Repertory Theatre on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Developed during the Rep’s 2022 New Works Festival, the play follows six fraternity brothers as they rehearse for a homecoming step show. During their practice though, mental illness, toxic...

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